Bond Charges

bellcitytransport

bellcitytransport

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Long of a short, what's do you charge customers/freight brokers when bonding a shipment. We picked up a load around noon, despite every attempt to clear the shipment the customs broker was unable to get a response from the shipper for values. At 7pm Freight broker, authorizes us to bond the load. Office staff complete the A8A, make changes to ACI and driver crosses the border around 10pm. The freight broker contacts the bond shed whom tells them the cost, and now the broker is only willing to pay that cost. Not my time for coming back to the office to complete A8A and ACI. Not my drivers time waiting to clear not to mention the annual cost of maintain a bond.
What's your thoughts?? What do you charge?
 
It should be a minimum of one hour plus bond charges. This is an administration fee. Your companies time is being used to clear this up plus with a T/L you are loosing use of the trailer till the load is cleared.
 
Bond charges from the warehouse (whatever the invoice reads)
extra drop (you had to send your driver to the warehouse)
use of bond (this varies by carrier, build in your admin costs here)
if border time is excessive (over 1 hour), some time there should be compensated also I'd think.
most importantly - you need offsite access to your system for things like this. I'll give you my IT guys number if you like.

Keep well,
Mike
 
Bond $100 it comes to our dock. Covers cost and small markup to maintain it.
Redelivery depends on where and how long it takes as well as how much freight it is.
To bond freight we do not have to come back in and change ACI we just have the driver do up an a8a and put it in bond same as always. The customs officer just writes failed pars on a8a and the failed pars number where it says previous cargo control number.

Sounds like this broker needed to have the freight held onto for a day or so until they came to their senses.
 
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I was thinking the same thing Rob. They just called asking were the freight is as the bond shed has released the trailer. Umm in my yard... where it will be till I can deliver it at my convenience.
 
Hey!
It's not mine because he'd have his proper revised confirmation already including all charges and it would encourage a timely delivery.

Um, we use a program provided by the firewall manufacturer (Netgear) in order to have remote access, then we use remote desktop to actually interface with our office machines. I can access my desktop computer in the office from my home office or even my car when I set up my cell phone as a hotspot with my surface/tablet. I suggest you get someone who knows what they are doing (not me) to set this up for you as it does open up your server/network to potential hack/attack. That being said, it's not like we're banks or other institutions where hackers gain anything overly important if they get in. Oh, some scanned in BOLs' and customer pricing data. We aren't big targets.

Keep well,
Mike
 
Not you : )
He knows what Mike I am talking about , the one in his office.
 
If you don't have a direct VPN connection for remote access, consider the products from GoToMyPC (Citrix). I remote in from my iphone if need be and have access to my desktop as if I were sitting at my office desk. Not expensive either, probably around $50/user per year.... it has saved us countless trips back to the office and we are never out of touch with all our office applications.
 
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You can charge the broker same thing you pay for your waiting time on your produce loads . I think it's $0/hr . Not sure, been a while since I did a produce load.
 
We used to use LogMeIn, but could no longer justify the cost. We switched over to Splashtop a couple months ago. It's $60 US/ user, but up to 10 computers on that user. We all share a login in dispatch and can access our individual computers. Saved us a couple hundred dollars and works better than LogMeIn.
 
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